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2019
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Kubernetes 1.16

We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.16, our third release of 2019! Kubernetes 1.16 consists of 31 enhancements: 8 enhancements moving to stable, 8 enhancements in beta, and 15 enhancements in alpha. Major ThemesCustom resourcesCRDs are in widespread use as a Kubernetes extensibility mechanism and…

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Why Does Developing on Kubernetes Suck?

Kubernetes has changed the way I operate software. Whole classes of production problems have disappeared–arguably to be replaced by others. But such is the way of the world. All told I’m happier operating a microservices app today than I was before I started using Kubernetes.

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Improved VPC Networking for AWS Lambda

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Update – August 5, 2020: We have fully rolled out the changes to the following additional Regions to those mentioned below. These improvements are now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region, operated by…

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AWS Fargate Deep Dive

AWS Fargate is a serverless technology which lets you run your containers in the cloud without having to worry about the operational overhead of managing the infrastructure. In this article, we talk about what Fargate is and how it works under the hood. We also try to compare it to other AWS Services like Lambda and…

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AWS Introducing Provisioned Concurrency for Lambda Functions

It’s really true that time flies, especially when you don’t have to think about servers: AWS Lambda just turned 5 years old and the team is always looking for new ways to help customers build and run applications in an easier way. As more mission critical applications move to serverless, customers need more control…

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Scaleway cloud adds AMD EPYC instances

With an ideal mix of compute, memory, and networking, General Purpose virtual machines are the default choice for reliable performance across most common applications. Whether you’re scaling dev/test environments or hosting production-grade applications, these instances deliver consistent performance and value for a…

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AWS Control Tower

Earlier this month I met with an enterprise-scale AWS customer. They told me that they are planning to go all-in on AWS, and want to benefit from all that we have learned about setting up and running AWS at scale. In addition to setting up a Cloud Center of Excellence, they want to set up […]

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Oak, a Free and Open Certificate Transparency Log

Update: Feb. 5 2020 The Let’s Encrypt CT logs are now included in approved log lists and are usable by all publicly-trusted certificate authorities. Today we are announcing a new Certificate Transparency log called Oak. The Oak log will be operated by Let’s Encrypt and all publicly trusted certificate authorities will…